19. Referring to :- . Instead of repairing the breaches in the commonwealth (equivalent to "building"), the princes "make a feast for laughter ( Ecclesiastes 10:16 ), and wine maketh their life glad ( Ecclesiastes 10:16- : ), and (but) money supplieth (answereth their wishes by supplying) all things," that is, they take bribes to support their extravagance; and hence arise the wrongs that are perpetrated ( Ecclesiastes 10:5 ; Ecclesiastes 10:6 ; Ecclesiastes 3:16 ; Isaiah 1:23 ; Isaiah 5:23 ). MAURER takes "all things" of the wrongs to which princes are instigated by "money"; for example, the heavy taxes, which were the occasion of Rehoboam losing ten tribes ( Isaiah 5:23- : , &c.). return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-20" class="com-number"
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